Travel Award for the paper ``Finding Contexts of Social Influence in Online Social Networks`` at the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Workshop on Social Network Mining and Analysis, 2013

DAAD Scholarship for postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Mellon University for the period 10/2012 to 09/2013

Best Paper Award for the paper "DB-CSC: A density-based approach for subspace clustering in graphs with feature vectors" at the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), 2011

Organization

Organization committee co-chair of the 2017 International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB)

Program co-chair of the 2016 LWDA conference (joint conference of the special interest groups IR, KDML, WM, and DB of the German Computer Science Society)

Member of the organizing committee for the 2016 Emmy Noether meeting

Organizer of the tutorial "Discovering Multiple Clustering Solutions: Grouping Objects in Different Views of the Data", at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2013), Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Organizer of the tutorial "Discovering Multiple Clustering Solutions: Grouping Objects in Different Views of the Data", at the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2012), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Organizer of the tutorial "Discovering Multiple Clustering Solutions: Grouping Objects in Different Views of the Data", at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2012), Washington, DC, USA

Organizer of the tutorial "Discovering Multiple Clustering Solutions: Grouping Objects in Different Views of the Data", at the SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2011), Mesa, Arizona, USA

Organizer of the tutorial "Discovering Multiple Clustering Solutions: Grouping Objects in Different Views of the Data", at the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2010), Sydney, Australia